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Numbers Game

Bhuvneshwar on course for super series

Jul 25, 2014: Only 15 times in Test history has a player achieved the double of 300 runs and 20 wickets in a Test series. Going on current form, Bhuvneshwar could well be the 16th

India in England 2014

India come full circle

Jul 23, 2014: India's wretched run away from home began at Lord's in 2011. A young team full of self-belief may have brought it to an end with their victory at the same venue three years later

India in England 2014

Vijay rediscovers the old Monk

Jul 23, 2014: The leave outside off stump has been critical to M Vijay's success since his India comeback last year. Contrary to popular opinion, such patience and self-denial comes naturally to him

England v India, 2nd Investec Test, Lord's, 5th day

No Ishant jokes for a month

Jul 22, 2014: After his match-winning performance at Lord's, India fans can't complain. Or can they?

England v India, 2nd Investec Test, Lord's 5th day

England seem to have forgotten about personality

Jul 21, 2014: They have to see a glass that is half-full, and play the game as if it is just that, a game; and an opportunity

England v India, 2nd Investec Test, Lord's, 5th day

Ridiculed Ishant ridicules England

Jul 21, 2014: Ishant Sharma has often been the butt of jokes, and sometimes deservedly so. Today, however, the joke was on England

England v India, 2nd Investec Test, Lord's, 4th day

Another battle, another defeat on Planet Al

Jul 20, 2014: Alastair Cook has got used to feeling of the axe hanging over him. Only his team-mates can save England now

England v India, 2nd Investec Test, Lord's 3rd day

For goodness sake, pitch it up

Jul 19, 2014: Uniform pitches are a problem all over the world. They all play much the same. It is crucial that the indigenous qualities of surfaces in their various climates and conditions are allowed to flourish

Numbers Game

A year for lower-order batting heroics

Jul 18, 2014: Lower-order partnership stats have remained remarkably constant over the last five decades, but there's been a huge leap in the first seven months of 2014

India cricket

Amre's guidance holds Naman Ojha in good stead

Jul 17, 2014: Naman Ojha's performances for India A in Australia are rewards for almost two years of work with batting coach Pravin Amre

Way Back When

'Even the bluddy Nawab!'

Jul 17, 2014: Pataudi Jr caught a young English fan's fancy for his princely ways and his heroic batting

Being on the Beeb and other stories

Jul 16, 2014: In which our correspondent is remembered by a former international cricketer, befriends a librarian, and talks horses with Ravindra Jadeja

India in England 2014

India out-reversed on dry pitch

Jul 15, 2014: England consigned India to two reverse-swing-induced collapses whereas India bowlers mainly relied on the new ball's movement and uneven bounce by hitting the deck hard

Mesmeric Sachin, soporific Boycs

Jul 14, 2014: Memorable innings in England-India Tests down the years

England v India, 1st Investec Test, Trent Bridge, 5th day

Signs a corner has been turned by England

Jul 13, 2014: The hosts appeared to play with a different attitude at Trent Bridge. No longer was there a sense that the game owed them. They just got on with it and Alastair Cook played the match with a smile on his face

Dhoni wins the first round in the captaincy battle

Jul 13, 2014: India's and England's captains have both taken some inexplicable decisions in the first Test at Trent Bridge. But Dhoni managed to take advantage of the hosts' frail line-up

Do you get a kick out of that?

Jul 13, 2014: On World Cup final day we recall the cricketers who have paid the penalty for warming up with a game of football

England v India, 1st Investec Test, Trent Bridge, 4th day

Anderson shines in era of the No. 11

Jul 12, 2014: There are few endeavors as silly as No. 11s batting. Anderson's innings was another piece of history for cricket's most comical and undervalued batting position

Why isn't Ashwin playing?

Jul 12, 2014: It's close to inexplicable how India's best spinner is being left out in favour of bits-and-pieces players

England v India, 1st Investec Test, Trent Bridge, 3rd day

Ishant's Mr Mistoffelees spell

Jul 11, 2014: Mark Waugh often said there was no such thing as a flat pitch in Test cricket and that the best bowlers would find a way. On the third day at Trent Bridge, Ishant Sharma found that way, adapting like England had not managed